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Word: calls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gore] When Nancy and a friend call Marlon Brando on the telephone, giggle and hang up, Al warns, "I'm telling. I'm telling. I'm telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet Al-oise | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Lisa Bochard [NATION, May 24], shown with her M-16, whose recommendation that "teachers should be encouraged to have guns" earned the animus of 52: "When I read that, I had to scream." "Bochard's pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four Rs: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic and 'rmed response." "Instead of sending a disruptive student to the principal, the teacher could just shoot him in the kneecap." "Hey, Lisa! Get rid of the gun, get help and get a life!" CHOICE EPITHETS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU Police raid former Israeli P.M.'s home looking for illicit gifts. Sympathy call from Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...catch-up ball for years. It's just the sort of place that would boast about having the busiest airport, which seems a bit like boasting about having the world's largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood for the first time and feels the need to display in its driveway the most expensive luxury sedan on the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Tall World, After All | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...that Chicago should not trouble itself to get into a height fight or a passenger race with the likes of Kuala Lumpur or Atlanta. It is, after all, the City of Big Shoulders, the Second City. Somebody reminded me that if Liebling were writing now, he'd have to call Chicago the Third City; Los Angeles has more people. Does that mean that some Chicago booster is concocting a scheme to annex Moline and move its population to the Loop? If so, please, stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Tall World, After All | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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